Phoebe Bridgers and Swift collaborated on the song "Nothing New" from "Red (Taylor's Version)" in 2021, as reported by Us Weekly. In an April 2022 profile of Bridgers by The LA Times, Swift told the publication, "I think that the specificity of Phoebe's lyrics and the vulnerability she expresses in her voice when she delivers them is what makes her music so deeply impactful and moving for me as a fan."
In March 2023, Bridgers presented Swift with the innovator award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, and said in part (via Rolling Stone), "Taylor has always told the truth. She's written songs from exactly where she is. Her music shifted genre in the same way life does —in the same way being 16 is totally incomparable to being 18, 22, 25, 28. I'm grateful that I've grown up in a world with Taylor Swift in it."